Poderi Luigi Einaudi Barolo Costa Grimaldi 750ml

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$118.99 $104.29 price per bottle Expert Advice

The result of an accurate selection of grapes from the Einaudi vineyard in Barolo. A great wine of the Langa, garnet red with a shade of amber, of intense and embracing fragrance, full bodied but smooth tannic taste, with a long spiced final taste. Derived from the Nebbiolo grapes from the Costa Grimaldi vineyard owned by the Einaudi estate, facing Barolo. The tannic characteristics guarantee a long life in bottle. With time it acquires complexity as the ethereal aromas of spices, truffles and leather. The annual production is of 7. 000 bottles. Review These 2014s from Einaudi point to the more refined style proprietor Matteo Sardanga has pursued in recent years. The Barolos now have much less French oak influence than they had in the past. Einaudi has several new vineyard coming online within the next few vintages and appears to be very well positioned for the future. From 2014 Barolo: Surprise, Surprise… (Feb 2018) by Antonio Galloni
Wine maker notes Fermented in steel tanks under strict temperature control (30°C-32°C), post-fermentation maceration, racked after 20/22 days, decanted, then gotten induced malolactic treatment and completed always at a controlled temperature. Matured in barriques and oak casks totally for thirty months, then refinement in bottles for one year.
Producer It all began in 1897, when 23-year-old Luigi Einaudi (who was to become Italy’s first President in 1948) purchased the first of the Einaudi estates (poderi) at San Giacomo, near Dogliani, in the heart of Dolcetto country. Today, his great-grandson Matteo Sardagna orchestrates production with technical director, Lorenzo Raimondi, and winemaker, Beppe Caviola. Some of the region’s finest vineyard sites are assembled under the Einaudi umbrella. Today, the total surface area of the property, which is made up of twelve farmsteads, is 358 acres, 111 of which are under vine. The vineyards, in turn, are subdivided into seven terroirs. Four of these are in Dogliani (four hills, one of which is the Vigna Tecc cru, another the premier area of San Luigi). The underground winery, located near the Vigna Tecc cru was renovated between 1993 and 2001. During that time, the winery was gradually doubled in size and includes state-of-the-art barrels and barrique cellars, sophisticated humidity and temperature control systems, and a new-generation bottle cellar stocking over 240,000-270,000 bottles.